A variety of news formats are widely available across the media market, ranging from legacy newspapers and broadcast media to various online and mobile news applications.
There are no Finnish 24-hour news channels, but Yle and MTV3 broadcast news bulletins on their main channels throughout the day. In the last decade, one of the major commercial channels, Nelonen, as well as other commercial channels, have ceased broadcasting their own news, leaving MTV3 as the only commercial broadcaster with major news provision. This can be seen as decreasing the diversity of broadcast news provision. Other traditional news formats, such as party-affiliated newspapers, have also notably declined in importance, with resources being directed to online and social media.
On the other hand, the largest news media organisations with most resources, such as HS, have heavily invested in their digital services, which increasingly make use of new formats such as data journalism, video, podcasts, visualisations, and other forms of news presentation. The public broadcaster Yle has also been considered ahead of most European public service broadcasters in terms of adapting its provision to the digital environment and their use of mobile and social media platforms to deliver public service content (Sehl et al., 2016; see also Karppinen & Ala-Fossi, 2017).
In addition to the traditional news providers, a handful of new online-only outlets, such as Uusi Suomi, Mustread, Long Play, and Rapport,have also attempted to develop new formats of news delivery, although their resources and reach remain much lower than major legacy news companies.
